Participation at MOTIVEM 2023 is growing
A total of 161 business ideas were presented in this edition of the awards, in which 682 students and 139 professors of the Universitat de València participated. Once again, participation at MOTIVEM grows, as much in number of presented ideas, with a 16 percent more than last year, as in students, with a 20 percent more than in 2022, and in teaching staff, with a 2 percent more participation. Likewise, once again, the MOTIVEM Awards have managed to involve all the faculties and centres of the Universitat de València.
The five winning ideas
The HELPIU idea, consisting of an efficient management of occupational accidents that improves health interventions and speeds up administrative procedures, is the winning idea in the Architecture and Engineering category. It has been developed by students Lucía Conejero, Pedro Domingo, Yassin El Bouzaydy and Sandra Paniagua, and coordinated by professor Virgilio Pérez, in cooperation with professors Daniel García and Ana María Vera.
MEDCOM, an Artificial Intelligence application for consecutive interpreting to facilitate communication between health staff and non-Spanish-speaking patients is the awarded idea in the Arts and Humanities category. This idea has been coordinated by professor Francisco Ivorra, in cooperation with professor Sergio Maruenda and students Natalia Ordóñez, Enrique Pérez and Martina Villar.
The Science category has recognised the idea NUTRIMAT, an idea that offers a second life for rice field waste by transforming it into biodegradable filters to protect l'Albufera from pollutants. The developers of this idea are students Manel Feltrer, Lara Lis, Roser Payà, Pau Peiró and Luís Alberto Toca, and it was coordinated by professor Héctor Martínez Pérez-Cejuela.
In the Health category, the MOTIVEM Awards 2023 have recognised the COLOSTOMY KIT idea, a case that ensures stoma care and hygiene for ostomate patients outside the home. Students Álvaro Vladimiro Alarcón, María Alfonso, Eduardo Javaloyes, Paula Llopis and Paula Vidal developed the idea and it was coordinated by professor María Vanessa Ibáñez, in cooperation with professor Gabriel Vidal.
Last but not least, in the Social and Legal Sciences category, the MOTIVEM Award 2023 was granted to LOCARTS, a service that offers cultural programmes in rural municipalities collected in the Agenda Valenciana Antidespoblamiento (Valencian Anti-depopulation Agenda). Professor Guillem Escorihuela coordinated this idea, developed by students Sergio Belles, Pau Díaz, Francisco González and Virginia Sogorb.
The award ceremony, conducted by managing director at ADEIT University-Business Foundation, Juan Manuel Penín, was attended –among others– by the president of the Board of Trustees and ADEIT, Vicent Soler; the vice-principal of Innovation and Transfer, Rosa Mª Donat; the director of the Institutions Centre of CaixaBank of the Valencian Community, Jaime Casas, and the president of the Chair for Business Culture, Carlos Pascual de Miguel.
“MOTIVEM’s success is thanks to the promotion of the teaching staff, combined with the motivation of the students, which is the heart of the programme” said the director of the programme and vice-principal of Innovation and Transfer of the Universitat de València, Rosa Mª Donat.
The president of the Board of Trustees and ADEIT, Vicent Soler, congratulated all the participating students and highlighted the importance of committing to entrepreneurship. “A new culture of training has been created; the culture of the entrepreneur, of risk taking”, he said while stressing the work that the ADEIT Foundation of the Universitat de València carries out in this field.
